Dmitry Baraishuk
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I am a partner and Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) at a custom software development company Belitsoft (a Noventiq company) with hundreds of successful projects for US-based startups and enterprises. More info here.
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Belitsoft's Guide to Regression Testing in 2025
Imagine launching a ‘minor’ update — only to wake up to crashed payments, angry customers, and a frantic rollback. This is exactly what regression testing prevents. Regression testing simple definition means running tests again after a code change to make sure nothing is broken. By 2025, with AI and hyper-agile development, getting it right will separate market leaders from firefighting teams.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on What Makes a Top .NET Developer in 2025
What separates a competent .NET developer from an elite one in 2025? The answer lies in cross-functional expertise — the ability to blend technical mastery with architectural thinking, domain knowledge, and modern practices like AI integration.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on ZLinq: Zero‑Allocation LINQ for High-Performance .NET Apps
ZLinq v1 was released last month (April 2025). It already has more than 2,000 GitHub stars. ZLinq removes the long-standing compromise between LINQ's syntax and the speed demanded by high-performance .NET workloads. Traditional LINQ incurs heap allocations that turn into bottlenecks in tight loops, forcing many teams to abandon it. By eliminating those allocations, ZLinq makes it ideal for scenarios where every microsecond (and allocation) counts. It also breathes new life into legacy projects trapped on older .NET Framework versions.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s 2025 AI Software Playbook: Infrastructure, Agents & Business Models
AI entrepreneurs and startup founders must balance four fronts at once with their product roadmaps - system architecture, revenue strategy, market timing, and competitive positioning. This article walks through the key AI infrastructure trends, model capabilities, and market dynamics expected through 2025.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Azure SignalR Implementation Patterns
SignalR technology promises lower time-to-market, scalability, and tight Azure alignment. Real-time UX (dashboards, notifications, IoT telemetry) is now a baseline user expectation and is directly tied to KPIs such as conversion and downtime reduction. Failing to meet those expectations risks customer churn and SLA breaches, compelling the audience to evaluate real-time stacks. Azure SignalR Service off-loads connection management and offers predictable consumption pricing. The business case shows lower TCO versus self-hosting, so the finance-minded leaders (CTO, IT Directors) see immediate ROI potential.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Perspective: UK Nearshore Software Development Trends (2025 Outlook)
In 2025, UK businesses are under cost pressure and cannot find enough local technology talent, so they are augmenting their software teams with developers from nearshore countries. This report examines how UK companies are using nearshore outsourcing to reduce costs, which regions they favour (with a focus on Eastern Europe), the qualities they seek in augmentation vendors (from professionalism to enthusiasm), how selection criteria reflect chief information officer and procurement priorities, and whether preferences vary by industry or company size. Insights from chief information officer surveys and interviews are included.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on Why Regression Testing Matters for Enterprise Software Stability
Companies that maintain complex software systems (fintech platforms, healthcare applications, SaaS products, or ongoing legacy modernization projects), share a common set of challenges. Each new release risks breaking functionality that once worked when seemingly unrelated code paths are touched. Deployments become stressful for engineers and worrisome for stakeholders who depend on stable, predictable releases. Development teams want to make updates faster without sacrificing reliability, defects must be detected early in the lifecycle, before customers are affected. Achieving these goals requires automated regression testing.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's 2025 ASP.NET Core Evaluation Framework for Enterprise Teams
Executives making hiring, team composition, and skill-gap decisions need a practical guide for evaluating ASP.NET Core developers. This ASP.NET Core skillset evaluation framework benefits technical leaders, hiring managers, and talent acquisition professionals by providing a structured, comprehensive approach to assessing developer competency. Hiring managers can avoid costly mis-hires by using the framework’s detailed skill criteria, team leads can proactively close gaps, ensuring project success, and executives can ensure technical teams support enterprise priorities. Each section includes "proficiency indicators" that clearly specify what to look for when evaluating candidates.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
How Top .NET Development Companies Deliver Enterprise Software in 2025
When you're looking to hire a trusted .NET development partner, the "top 10" label usually indicates companies with deep expertise in Microsoft’s .NET stack — C#, ASP.NET, related tools — along with strong track records of delivering successful projects and earning high client satisfaction. These firms build enterprise-level systems, web platforms, custom applications, and mobile apps with MAUI. The right choice for your own project depends on what you need — whether that is e-commerce, modernizing legacy software, migrating to the cloud, or something else — as well as factors such as project complexity, budget, timeline, industry experience, preferred team size, and location. Leading .NET providers offer end-to-end services: they plan architecture, handle full-stack development, conduct thorough testing, manage deployment, and provide ongoing maintenance, so the resulting software is reliable, scalable, and firmly grounded on Microsoft’s platform.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Take: Why is Playwright Better than Selenium in 2025?
In just a few years, Playwright has become the fastest-growing test automation tool. Community surveys show Playwright being used by almost half of respondents, exceeding other tools. In TestGuild's survey analysis, Playwright usage has far exceeded Selenium making it the top automation testing tool in 2025. Many teams have started choosing Playwright as their primary UI automation framework.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s 2025 .NET Toolchain for Enterprise: From Code to Cloud
The 2025 .NET stack blends Microsoft-supported open-source and commercial components: high-performance application frameworks, Azure cloud services, developer productivity extensions, and DevOps automation. Together, they allow engineering teams to build and run scalable, cross-platform workloads for web, mobile, cloud, and AI while meeting performance and security requirements.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Shares How to Hire a Dedicated Development Team and Cut Costs by 40%+
Outsourcing software development services saves businesses up to 70% of the budget, especially if you hire a high qualified offshore dedicated development team. Even global leaders like Alibaba, Google, Skype, and WhatsApp rely on this model. Discover when to choose a dedicated team model and how to make such a collaboration well-organized and budget-saving.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
